GRE Word List
EMISSARY
one designated as the agent of another : representative
The meaning of the word emissary is one designated as the agent of another : representative.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cemetery | a burial ground |
| adroit | having or showing skill, cleverness, or resourcefulness in handling situations |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| malady | a disease or disorder of the animal body |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| beeline | a straight direct course |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |